{"id":6504,"date":"2025-02-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T07:45:29","slug":"weekly-design-links-2-4-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/weekly-design-links-2-4-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Design Links \u2013 2\/4\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another day, another batch of links, and I’ve still got more stuff I want to do before I rest. I’ll get there\u2013it just feels like there are not enough hours in the day. I just posted my fifth Phase post<\/a> (article or whatever). I never thought these would be easy to do. It’s harder than I expected, which is OK. I need to work that creation muscle more. These posts are fun to do, but it’s curation, not creation. I want more of the latter, don’t we all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Beautiful Black-And-White Winning Photos From The MonoVisions Awards
<\/a>The MonoVisions Awards have celebrated the artistry and skill of black-and-white photography from 2017 to 2024 by showcasing 16 winning images\u2014both series and single winners\u2014that highlight inspiring photographers\u2019 mastery of monochrome and their unique ability to tell powerful visual stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmed Mansour
<\/a>A photographer from the heart of rural Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web Design\/UX\/UI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Dark Patterns Detective
<\/a>Uncover the hidden design tricks that manipulate user decisions online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Things No One Told Me About Design Systems
<\/a>This UX designer learned the hard way, but you don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Super Color Palette
<\/a>Generate super awesome color palettes that shift in hue, saturation, lightness, and more. 100% Free. No Ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The sci-fi motor design that could help save the EV industry
<\/a>The donut-shaped wheel might just power your next electric vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rethink Softly seating creates comfort without foam
<\/a>Sustainability-driven designers including Richard Hutten and Lilian van Daal have contributed to Rethink Softly \u2013 a project by Rianne Koens dedicated to creating seating that doesn’t rely on polyurethane foam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Why is the UX job market such a mess right now?
<\/a>A comprehensive explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Understanding the psychology of font and using text in design
<\/a>How to choose a font that fits your purpose best<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNCUT.wtf<\/a>
a free typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design Thinking<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s time for design to think less and feel more
<\/a>By embracing sensitivity over logic, designers can learn from old masters and create new solutions that reconnect to us being humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Perhaps design thinking makes us confused.
Design feeling is the right word.” \u27aa Naoto Fukasawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day, another batch of links, and I’ve still got more stuff I want to do before I rest. I’ll get there\u2013it just feels like there are not enough hours in the day. I just posted my fifth Phase post (article or whatever). I never thought these would be easy to do. It’s harder than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,10,49,18,21,20,19,30],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-links","tag-industrial-design","tag-photography","tag-tools","tag-typography","tag-ui","tag-ux","tag-web-design","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/design-feeling-6-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6527,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfreeborn.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}